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- Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Pistols
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3919
Re: OT - Pistols
I have fairly fat hands as well, the 1911 fit me best, especially a bobtailed frame. Dan Wesson makes a great pistol, the Commander Bobtail or CBOB, check it out. http://www.cz-usa.com/product_detail.php?id=66 And Jeff Quinn @ Gunblast has a review of one. http://www.gunblast.com/DanWesson-Commander...
- Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS?: As goes the Single Action revolver, so goes Ameri
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1403
Re: POLITICS?: As goes the Single Action revolver, so goes Ameri
Good post, and thanks for the books Doc...
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Need your opinion - Large Loop Lever w/ pics
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2938
Re: Need your opinion - Large Loop Lever w/ pics
Looks good! As for size, I guess I'd want it just big enough to comfortably fit my hand with the biggest glove I'd be apt to wear and no bigger. You going into production with these?
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT? HA! Any of youse who've been to Africa dealt with this?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3293
Re: OT? HA! Any of youse who've been to Africa dealt with this?
Yes Sir Mr Elephant Sir, you just go ahead and take whatever you want, I'll be way over here...
- Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor: MAINE Jokes Wanted!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2507
Re: Humor: MAINE Jokes Wanted!
Portland, as close as you can get to Maine without actually being there!
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Sarah Palin's security clearance.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2196
Sarah Palin's security clearance.
In case there was any doubt left lingering... SARAH PALIN'S SECURITY CLEARANCE Before you dismiss the fact that Sarah Palin is Commander of the Alaska National Guard, consider this: Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of t...
- Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Obama McCain Interesting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1218
- Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: WARNING! Explicit bullet wound. Not for young eyes.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5499
Re: WARNING! Explicit bullet wound. Not for young eyes.
Yeah Griff, maybe shrapnel, looks like a cut. My brother got a wound much like that going through a sliding glass door. We won't elaborate the circumstances of that event, the amount of booze, the trail of blood going across the street to the hospital, the explanation to Mom...
- Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How many states still have decent gun laws?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5756
Re: How many states still have decent gun laws?
Vermont is the way it should be. The only gun law is don't commit a crime with one, oh, and stay off of federal property. Cosmoline, Great set up on the bike! I could use one of those scabbards, I have a range within cycling distance and try to do that when I have the time, always like to kill two b...
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT: Took another horse ride into the Cabinet Mtn wilderness
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1848
Re: OT: Took another horse ride into the Cabinet Mtn wilderness
I'd love to do that one day, How long were you out? Thanks for the pics!
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Total Weirdness...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2750
Re: OT - Total Weirdness...
I ate up the whole series, although, the last few were just 'cause I wanted to read the whole series. Great book.
The Nuns killed you if you failed because it 'proved' you were merely an animal and not human. Maybe we should enact a similar test for our political woes, if you are merely a liberal...
The Nuns killed you if you failed because it 'proved' you were merely an animal and not human. Maybe we should enact a similar test for our political woes, if you are merely a liberal...
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - American Gov't Checks & Balances
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2276
Re: American Gov't Checks & Balances
But then how will the sky come falling down?! :lol: IF Obama gets elected and IF the congress deepens it's liberal majority than there will be two years of potential nastiness but then if they do anything really stupid I have faith that we will vote the rascals out of congress just like we did to Cl...
- Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:27 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2794
Re: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight
Expensive lesson to drill out a NECG sight! Ain't going to work as a ghost ring due to the HUGE block of a body that gets in the way. The candidates are the XS and the Williams FP, but apparently, no pictures exist of these elusive sights perched on a Ruger. Pete44ru, I can visualize the XS if it lo...
- Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2794
Re: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight
Thanks for the tip, I have seen that sight, even shot with one, it is a fine peep sight. I am after a ghost ring sight and the NECG sight is a bit of a block and doesn't offer the thin rim of a ghost ring. I guess I should have said ghost ring in the title, the XS is supposed to be one and may need ...
- Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor-More outhouse humor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1285
Humor-More outhouse humor
Here in Vermont back in the 1920 lived a man named Tink Alder, a carpenter by trade, had a long beard and was always seen in a white shirt, black pants with suspenders and his hat. One day Tink got a letter from the Benoit sisters, twins living alone on their homestead, asking if he could come build...
- Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Humor - Semper Fi!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1646
- Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2794
OT-XS Ruger M77 aperture sight
Anyone have a picture of one? Curious how it is mounted and can't find any info on their site.
- Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Malfeasance of Government on Display - again
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3095
Re: POLITICS - Malfeasance of Government on Display - again
These no knock warrants are despicable, I am reluctantly pleased that it happened to the Mayor of a town so perhaps something might come of it and these thuggish raids stopped. Drug addiction is bad, the war on drugs is a whole lot worse.
- Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: HONDOS ON RIGHT NOW 8PM 08.05.08 ON amc
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1087
Re: HONDOS ON RIGHT NOW 8PM 08.05.08 ON amc
Thanks for the heads up! I caught Searchers, I love westerns...
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Feel bad for my local gun-shop owner.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2784
Re: Feel bad for my local gun-shop owner.
Sorry to hear that, the feds need to be shut down in so many ways...
- Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Treasures
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2483
Re: Treasures
+1 on what everyone has said...
- Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS -Surge At Home?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2414
Re: POLITICS -Surge At Home?
Bingo. I don't want McCain in any more than most of us - but I want Obama in even less. Pathetic choices have been forced upon us, but the reality is that we will elect a President this fall and it will be either McCain or Obama. I'd rather have some small glimmer of hope than none at all...[/quote]...
- Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1st Annual Leverguns Billy Dixon Shoot Report
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14606
Re: 1st Annual Leverguns Billy Dixon Shoot Report
Great report Mr. Tuttle! That looks like a fine time. Man, I need to move west...
- Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS- Conneticut gun seizure law
- Replies: 4
- Views: 844
POLITICS- Conneticut gun seizure law
And I thought that America stood for Liberty and Justice for all... Unique law lets police seize guns before a crime is committed BY PAUL HUGHES REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN HARTFORD -- Using a unique state law, police in Connecticut have disarmed dozens of gun owners based on suspicions that they might harm...
- Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: COST OF 22 RIMFIRE
- Replies: 115
- Views: 28168
Re: COST OF 22 RIMFIRE
Just went up from 11.97 to 13.47 here for a federal box of 550 rounds at WallyMart...
- Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics - RKBA Quotes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1924
Re: Politics - RKBA Quotes
I don't know, but they both work for me.
- Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rossi troubleshooting help needed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1010
Re: Rossi troubleshooting help needed
The stock plastic follower tends to hang up, a metal one that would cure the ill can be had from Steve @ Steve's Guns.
- Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What kind of hunter are you?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3921
Re: What kind of hunter are you?
I'm a 4 when I'm outdoors and a 3 when I'm not, always visualizing.
I like the Wyoming pic too...
I like the Wyoming pic too...
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - Letter to the editor on immigration
- Replies: 3
- Views: 610
POLITICS - Letter to the editor on immigration
Got this via email, thought thought this a good way to pass it along... From: 'David LaBonte' My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to 'print' it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Pass it along if you fee...
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: more range time - 39TDS and 4 pistols
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1727
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: more range time - 39TDS and 4 pistols
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1727
Re: more range time - 39TDS and 4 pistols
Rjohns, Do you have any contact info for John Pauza?
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: more range time - 39TDS and 4 pistols
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1727
Re: more range time - 39TDS and 4 pistols
Nice guns and thanks for all the range reports of late! Now, tell me more about that little knife. I need something like that, where'd you find that?
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Political - New Zealand seizes kid because of strange name
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2057
Re: Political - New Zealand seizes kid because of strange name
Well, seems to me anyone who really has a problem with their birth name can legally change it when they are 18, unfortunate as that name is I can't abide the court spending time on it. But then, I guess it's NZ's problem...
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Political - Obama's latest gaffe
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2639
Re: Political - Obama's latest gaffe
Found an unedited version on Hotair.com, and seems to be one of those 'out of context' statements. He was talking about calling us all to service to make the world a better place, 'a civilian national security force' to spread hope and love all across the world, not some jack booted thugs to keep us...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Political - Obama's latest gaffe
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2639
Re: Political - Obama's latest gaffe
Thanks for the clip Ysabel. Unfortunately, right when he says "There is no greater challenge then the defense of our nation and our values..." the video comes to an abrupt halt, I guess YouTube decided it was best that we don't hear what he had to say as well.
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:27 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Political - Obama's latest gaffe
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2639
Re: Political - Obama's latest gaffe
Tsabel, Can you come up with the youtube video link? I do not like this Obama...
- Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT Opinions on United Sporting Arms Revovlers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1769
Re: OT Opinions on United Sporting Arms Revovlers
$1000.00, it looks like what is pictured above minus the .357 set. What do you think 'o that price, I read that there were only 150 quick kit guns made. Cubrock, what quirks do you refer to? I'm going to go look at it again Monday and decide, I'll let you know if I pass on it, or post some pics... :...
- Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT Opinions on United Sporting Arms Revovlers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1769
OT Opinions on United Sporting Arms Revovlers
A local gun shop has one for sale used, a quick-kit Seville with 44mag and 45colt barrels and cylinders. Deep rich bluing, looks great but I have never heard of them, what do you folks think about the quality of these firearms?
Any tales of wonder or woe would be appreciated, thanks in advance...
Any tales of wonder or woe would be appreciated, thanks in advance...
- Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY - Things to make you go Hmmmmm.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1503
Re: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY - Things to make you go Hmmmmm.
Hmmmmmm... When do we march on the Bastille?
- Sun Jul 06, 2008 2:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Hey, Waitaminute...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2485
Re: OT - Hey, Waitaminute...
If you watch 'The Magnificent Seven' and 'The Seven Samurai' they are, scene for scene, the exact same movie. Happens a lot I'd guess.
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics: Where UK is, US seems determined to follow..
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2285
Re: Politics: Where UK is, US seems determined to follow..
Lon Horiuchi still walks free. Our tax dollars working hard for us, mmmm.
- Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics - Pro 2nd, a silver lining...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 925
Politics - Pro 2nd, a silver lining...
A silver lining in the otherwise very dark cloud of the daily kos..... Why Liberals Should Love The Second Amendment by Angry Mouse Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:01:33 PM PDT Liberals love the Constitution. Ask anyone on the street. They'll tell you the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a liberal or...
- Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gone overboard with heavy hard bullets
- Replies: 75
- Views: 9274
- Sat May 31, 2008 10:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics: Thought you might like this...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1429
Politics: Thought you might like this...
Whichever side of the fence you sit on, this DOES make an interesting read!....... Don't worry Republicans, aren't worried about 'approval ratings'! For those of us who spent time in the military, believe in our military and support the men and women of our military, read on............. John Glenn ...
- Fri May 02, 2008 9:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Multi-tasking
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1566
It's all I have for now and has been working great reloading .45 colt. Lately I've been raining .45acp brass at the range so need to consider something that will do more volume, which this hand press, unless your way faster than me, isn't so good for. It is great for the muti-tasking though ain't it...
- Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT - Anyone here into traditional archery?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 7645
- Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: B. Dixon Ultra Long Range Event Report
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12206
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics/Religion - Oprah's anti-Christian views
- Replies: 52
- Views: 6614
- Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Kim Du Toit is spot on (again) about War Movies:
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4880
Spot on guys. Here in Vermont we have a veteran against the war. He had joined the Army to pay for college, did a tour in Iraq and now is vocally opposed to the war. He cried that he joined the army to go to college for free and never expected to have to go fight someone! And that the conditions wer...
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: POLITICS - fighting for gun rights in Canada
- Replies: 1
- Views: 695
POLITICS - fighting for gun rights in Canada
Worth checking out...
www.brucemontague.ca
He's a Canadian who has put his neck out to fight the firearms act in Canada.
He deserves our support, IMHO, and I hope he prevails.
The videos that they have put together with daughter Katie are great.
www.brucemontague.ca
He's a Canadian who has put his neck out to fight the firearms act in Canada.
He deserves our support, IMHO, and I hope he prevails.
The videos that they have put together with daughter Katie are great.